I heard the author, Paul Ardoin, on a podcast pitching this book as a police procedural + Groundhog Day, which is a fair summary. Our main character is Luke Guillory, a detective with the Sacramento police department. He starts off the book as a bit of a loser. He's not a great detective, with a low case closure...

Just another addition to my ever-growing collection of headphones: the new Anker (soundcore) Liberty Buds 2. Just available for a few days, but just in time, the battery of the charging case of my Liberty 3 Pro starts to show its age and doesn’t want to charge fully anymore. I’m not yet 100% sure if I will keep...

Going through some things in my basement, I stumbled across these two beautiful envelopes that I believe were my mom’s, probably from the late-1950s/early-1960s. I’m not sure what the story behind these was, whether they were purchased or came as part of a record or record storage purchase, but I thought they were...

A photography project I've been thinking about since the pandemic. Photos of the countryside - but with *fewer things in them*. Quite pleased with this set.

There's a fucking mosquito in our bedroom. Two nights ago, I laid quietly in bed, falling asleep. I suddenly heard a buzzing beside my ear. "Ugh, there's a fly in the room!" I called out to Daniel. The next morning, I woke up to a bug bite under my chin. Throughout the day, I discovered more: one on my right arm, my...

This summer I spent a week at Plum Village, a Buddhist monastery in the southwest of France. And this place held up a mirror in a way that I didn't expect. There are lots of ways in which this retreat changed me as a person, but here I want to discuss one specific thing that happened there. Plum Village made me...

CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - Wannabe (Spice Girls cover) in the Live Lounge Se7enHoly shit. I thought it was a bit corny at times but I think it's a good movie. I couldn't contain my disgust and shock. Who knew Brad Pitt was that good looking ? I truly had never gotten the hype until this movie. Albums of the...

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level, in which one can be absolutely precise. Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist Poem: Abstraction Towers Abstraction on abstraction, Put some more on top of that; Abstraction's the attraction, Till there ain't no turning back. I don't...

As of this week, I’m suddenly seeing people dismiss points made in otherwise readable articles because Pangram says these are (partially) AI authored. I hate the origins and consequences of GenAI more than almost anyone. I can’t wait for the bubble to burst also. I presented in Amsterdam on how AI has killed my...

I broke down and decided to buy a pumpkin pie frappe. I know, total white girl mode. LOL. It was actually not that bad. Of course I got it from my local coffee shop and not that corporate star place. I’m not completely sure of them though compared to other flavors but overall they aren’t bad.

ELCA pastor Clint Schnekloth has been doing some interesting thinking and writing about housing and the Church's responsibility in this time of housing lack; this piece about the vacant (not abandoned so much as underused and underutilized) church space is his latest, and this piece has some specific examples of...

As soon as the days visibly shorten and the air gets cool, I experience a mood best described as "cozy-morose." It is a mood for curling up under a blanket with a cup of tea and reveling in feeling just a bit sad. In 2017, with some help from Pinterest (which was still good at the time), I put together The...

I was delighted to learn that talks about returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece have collapsed, apparently because the Greek government is insisting the return must be permanent, and the British Museum is (fortunately) prevented by law from giving away its treasures. Of course the marbles should stay where they are,...

Been a little quiet on here recently. No big reason, no drama, just a few little events, an overly busy work schedule and, you know, dad life stuff. The week after Madrid was manic, not helped by a distinct post-holiday slump that left me less than motivated to do much of anything. Last week included a long wait at...

A relaxed bike and hike adventure to a nearby ridge, blending forest roads and alpine meadows. With a mix of biking and scenic hiking, we explored familiar trails and got inspirations for a new route.

The Late Cretaceous is hotter than the other periods I’ve visited. My dossier says it’s because of all the volcanic activity. I can’t see any volcanoes from my campsite, which is on the shore of the prehistoric Pacific Ocean, but the air is thick, like a bad smog day in Los Angeles.I’m queasy from the jump. Time...

Lately, I've received a number of emails warning me that old "digital" accounts are in danger of being deleted. If you are more disciplined than I am, you might be thinking this is some kind of phishing scam. However, I believe most of these are legitimate, and the result of a past addiction to new technology. With...

Fluture de noapte #the100picsMulțumesc că urmărești Jurnalul lui ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.

In 2021 my job had us go back in person about six months before the rest of Austin did. At first it was great, there was nobody on the road and I could putter along to work in our 20 year old Jeep without issue. Then one day I went to reverse out of the parking lot at work and it popped out of gear. I put it in...

September 2026. Manchester. Oh, Manchester, but it’s Goldthorpe with so much to answer for, as my post-pint dash through another South Yorkshire mining town ends with a pulled muscle (or something, I’m no medic) at the back of my leg. I really shouldn’t have taken the mick out of Mrs RM’s sporting injury. So Friday...

If I’ve been missing from the internet it’s because I’ve been spending my evenings grinding on a game from Butterscotch Shenanigans called How Many Dudes? Hot off the heels of the release of their massive multi-year sequel project Crashlands 2, the family+ operation at BS turned a little game-jam style prototype...

My thanks to Oleh Providnyk for adding disassociated to his Pixel Area project. Pixel Area is a blog directory, or blogroll if you like, solely for personal and independent websites/blogs. Instead of a text listing though, linked websites are represented by a square block, called a pixel. A quite large pixel,...

I’m at Album Club #187. I know Crash from when I was a kid, but have never heard the rest of the album.

I think, in part, I regret upgrading any of my Apple devices to the 27 line of operating systems. While my experience as a whole has been pretty favourable, the one thing I was looking forward to is not just disappointing, but is a huge step backwards. I don't use Siri for many things, but I do use it a lot for a...

TeachPhilosophy101, a free and helpful collection of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy, has recently been updated. “Struttúra” by Florence Henri Its materials cover course planning, how to use class time, student assessment, challenges, and much more. TeachPhilosophy101 was created by John Immerwahr...

I got to interview Scott Chacon on stage at Turing Fest yesterday, talking about "Why GitHub Won". What a privilege, and what a super-cool guy Scott is. Total legend.

I remember at some point growing up, I saw Elizabeth Holmes on magazine covers and spread across the internet as the "new Steve Jobs". I was fascinated to finally see a woman in that position; I think the #girlboss era wasn't quite there yet, and I welcomed a role model in spaces that were usually male-dominated. I...

Chegamos ao episódio (episódio? post temático? mensalidade musical?), chegamos a mais um post sobre as recomendações de músicas que eu descobri esse mês e gostei muito pra vir aqui compartilhar elas. Eu acho que esse deve ser o último post desse tipo. Não que eu vá parar de fazer eles, mas quero tentar a partir do...

天展钓 Tenkara在英国试了试天展钓。 它原本是日本山地溪流里的一种钓法。没有线轮，也不需要复杂的饵和线组。 主体就是一根竿，一根线，一只毛钩。 Less is more，钓鱼这件事变得更依赖人本身。要观察鱼在哪里，看水从石头哪一边流过，哪里形成回水，哪里有树荫，哪里水深突然变化。固定长度的线也意味着，你不能站在岸边把毛钩一直抛向远处，很多时候必须自己走过去。 它甚至不需要真正的饵料。毛钩本身只是羽毛、丝线等材料扎成的人工拟饵。入水后，借助水流和竿尖的轻微动作，可以让毛钩像一只正在漂流、游动，或者落水后挣扎的昆虫，从而吸引鱼类的注意力咬钩。 这种和鱼和环境互动的感觉，很惬意。...

Enchantment, J.R.R. Tolkien believed, is “as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical life.” But enchantment is a story we tell ourselves that tells us back to ourselves, and like every story, it can be true or false. Love is the most powerful enchantment we know,...

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening...

I was reading an old short story by Byatt yesterday, and I came across this — which is totally correct. It’s not that the people in the “Scandinavian North” (i.e., the north of Norway) are better at English per se — far from it — but the prosody of the dialects matches up with English much better than the sing-song...

The organisation I work for has a staff member whose role is to make sure everything we do considers both the climate and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This role is not a permanent fixture, and we have been asked to consider that overseeing those aspects of our work will at some point become...